Transcript 3/20 Civil Rights Day 2

Good Morning
• Please sit in the same group of 3 that you sat in last time.
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Civil Rights Project (quick discussion)
• Formative Assessment: Students will
• Research in groups to complete an interactive presentation on the Civil
Rights Movement of the 1960-1970’s; and
• How many of you are able to bring laptops to class?
• Write a formal letter to persuade a current day individual the importance of
addressing equal protection under the law.
• Who would you write to?
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Prepare for Presentations
• Please spend 10 minutes organizing how you intend to present the
information in your article.
• NOTE: You may choose (THIS IS ADVISED) to present in combination
with another group
• For example:
• Little Rock segregation crisis + Daisy Bates
• Montgomery Bus Boycott + Rosa Parks
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Presentations
• Presentations should run from 3-5 minutes
• Presentations should include input from all members
of the group
• You may use the doc cam; board; or whatever
• The class or I may well ask you questions on your
topic.
• You will need to show me your notes.
• If you are not presenting then YOU
ARE TAKING
NOTES ON WHAT YOU ARE HEARING.
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The Civil Rights Movement
1954-1968
Chapter 18 Section 2
“Challenging the man.”
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Standards
• USH.6.2 Summarize and assess the various actions which characterized the
early struggle for civil rights (1945-1960).
• USH.7.7 Identify areas of social tension from this time period and explain
how social attitudes shifted as a result.
• USH.7.3 Identify and explain the significance of federal programs, policies
and legal rulings designed to improve the lives of Americans during the
1960s.
• USH.7.6 Identify the problems confronting different minorities during this
period of economic and social change and describe the solutions to these
problems.
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Learning Targets
•I can describe the key events of the early
struggle for civil rights (1945-1960).
•I can describe how social tensions effected
attitudes during the 1960s.
•I can describe the effect and role of the Federal
government on social issues during the 1960s.
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Sit In Movement (Begins in Greensborough N.C. - 1959)
• College Student Driven Movement  Woolworths Department
Store (Think Macys)
• “You just served us at the checkout counter. Why can’t we be served
at the counter here?”
• Day 1 = 4 students
• Day 2 = 29 students
• Within 1 week = 300+ Students
• Within 2 months = 54 cities/9 states
• NAACP and SCLC did not directly support at first (too
controversial)
• Students form Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
• Rural voter registration initiative
• Very dangerous
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Freedom Riders - 1961
• Interstate bus service is subject to continued
segregation
• AA and White volunteers challenge segregation policy
• Busses attacked in Anniston and Birmingham Alabama
by white mobs
• Tire slitting; rocks; firebomb
• Riders beaten severely by mobs
• FBI later determines that Birmingham police chief “Bull”
Conner coordinated violence through KKK
• JFK takes action
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+ Appoints 40 AAs to high level positions
+ Thurgood Marshal Appointed to Fed. Circuit Court
+ Acts to end discrimination in federal hiring (CEEO)
- Does not initially support Freedom Riders directly
+ Bobby Kennedy tasked with ending bus terminal
segregation under Interstate Commerce Commission
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James Meredith
• Air force Veteran seeks to
attend college at U of Miss.
• Refused admission
• JFK sends 500 Federal
Marshals to escort JM onto
campus
• Riot erupts
• JM attends classes at U of
Miss. Under Federal Guard
until graduation.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Sparked by violence lead by “Bull” Conner in Birmingham AL
• MLK drafts letter from Birmingham jail
• “I draw the line in the dust….and I say, segregation now! Segregation
tomorrow! Segregation forever! (5:39)
• Gov. George Wallace, AL
• Then personally blocks admission of 2 black students to U of Alabama
• The next day CR Activist Medger Evans murdered in Mississippi
• JFK pushes The Civil Rights bill of 1964 with the help of MKL’s peaceful
march on D.C. (August 28, 1963)
• “I had a Dream” Speech (5:17)
• JFK murdered on Nov. 22, 1963
• Johnson pushes through The Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Kennedys memory
• Effectively ended segregation in public facilities
• Sets up EEOC
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Selma
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The Struggle for Voting Rights
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not secure voting rights
• 24th Amendment eliminated poll taxes in federal elections (not state)
• SCLC and SNCC step up voter registration efforts
• Violence erupts 24 AA churched bombed in 4 months in 1964 alone
• KKK terror campaign
• MLK stages Selma, Alabama March (1965)
• Sheriff’s terror campaign commences
• More than 2000 arrested (including children)
• Johnson proposes and drives through Voting Rights Act 1965 to quell
violence  federal registration assistance (protection)
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Project Work Time
• HW: Please complete Chapter 18.3 ID activity
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